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“On Hope”: a fitting companion to the end of Camus’ MoS - “o let me think it is not quite in vain / To sigh out sonnets to the midnight air!”
some strange echoes of nationalism / colonial steadfastness in stanza 6. (Perhaps an example of the deluded, eventually Absurd “conquerer” type described by Camus…)
Liberty herself is mortal and yet is hoped-for as angelic. (Absurd freedom is deified.)
— May 19, 2026 05:31PM
some strange echoes of nationalism / colonial steadfastness in stanza 6. (Perhaps an example of the deluded, eventually Absurd “conquerer” type described by Camus…)
Liberty herself is mortal and yet is hoped-for as angelic. (Absurd freedom is deified.)
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“On Seeing the Elgin Marbles”: so much in 14 lines.
“A sun- a shadow of a magnitude.” (And-The unpaired rhymes of the first line adds a sort of heft.)
“O thou whose face…” “O fret not after Knowledge-I have none” - yes !!
“On Oxford” - Magd Deer Park Venison mentioned?!?!
“Lines of Seeing…” - hmm. A sense of , or wish for, immortality, yet words (and bodies) inevitability go up in smoke.
— Apr 10, 2026 03:33PM
“A sun- a shadow of a magnitude.” (And-The unpaired rhymes of the first line adds a sort of heft.)
“O thou whose face…” “O fret not after Knowledge-I have none” - yes !!
“On Oxford” - Magd Deer Park Venison mentioned?!?!
“Lines of Seeing…” - hmm. A sense of , or wish for, immortality, yet words (and bodies) inevitability go up in smoke.
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read: intro - on continuity + stepwise motion (gradatio)- gradus ad Parnassum altissimum , poetry as drama in miniature.
“On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”(14)- “Then felt I like some watcher of the skies / When a new planet swims into his ken.” The untraversed worlds newly in view. (A newness which becomes planetary! universal! expansive beyond oneself. spinning a new reality in one mind’s view).
— Mar 27, 2026 07:13PM
“On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”(14)- “Then felt I like some watcher of the skies / When a new planet swims into his ken.” The untraversed worlds newly in view. (A newness which becomes planetary! universal! expansive beyond oneself. spinning a new reality in one mind’s view).
